Nr. 20,000,000 Ford Car.

[plind]

Hi Fordbarners,

May 26, 1927 rolled Ford car no.15, 000,000 from the assembly line. And as I later read, so was Ford car NO. 20,000,000 rolled off the assembly line in Rouge. April 14 1931 .. Around NO 4,550,000 in mid April.. I have read many places that were built about 4,849,340 Model A. .. So from mid April 1931 to Marts 1932 there was built ca 300,000 Model A .And the last Model A was built in March 1932. There are 15 million. May 1927 + 4.8 million in March 1932 = 19,800,000 Total in 1932, how can Car NO. 20 million roll off the assembly line in April 1931 ...?? If we are looking on this fact, i can se that it have to be Ford NO around 19,500.000 in April 1931, 500.000 cars from the Twenty Millionth Ford... It's an equation I do not understand ... Maybe there are some here who can help explain how it works ...??

Best Regards

Per Jensen

[Greg Jones]

Supposedly s/n 15,007,033 was reputed to be the last Model T assembled, but Ford branches continued assembling cars until stocks were depleted. 69,198 Model T engines were built in 1927 between May and December of 1927 (15,007,034 through 15,076,231). Engine production mostly listed as "truck" continued through the year. This is from Bruce McCalley's book, The Model T. This probably accounts for SOME of the discrepancy. Then, how about foreign production? How is that counted? Your question is interesting!

[ctlikon0712]

That's exactly what I was going to bring up, the role that foreign production played in all that.

[plind]

Ok, but what i have read, so are all engine made on River Rouge and shipped out to all assembly line around the world... But i have maybe got wrong info...??

[Tom Wesenberg]

Also you have to add in the Ford cars built before the Model T, although I'm not sure how many that would total.

[columbiA]

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Total US,Canada,& export production of model A,s was 5,054,031 cars,commercial vehicles & trucks.Source-The Restorer vol 36,issue 1,May/June 1991.

[JeffM]

Slightly moving away from the topic, but does anyone know how many Model A "knockdowns" were exported from Canada?

[plind]

Originally Posted by Tom Wesenberg

Also you have to add in the Ford cars built before the Model T, although I'm not sure how many that would total.

Ok, i belived the the 15 mill car not just is Model T, But all he´s car in total.. As i remember was the text on the picture : Ford fifteen millionth, but i can remember wrong.. But if we count all car from Fords first car,??? so did i not know how many he made before he started production of Model T in 1908...??

[Bob Johnson]

There were 19,616 Fords built before the Model T. (Floyd Clymer)

[plind]

[QUOTE=Bob Johnson;437827]There were 19,616 Fords built before the Model T. (Floyd Clymer)[/QUOTE

Bob,
Thanks, now i can see that something not is correct, so as Fordgarage writhe, so is it about marketing...And the counter maybe count dobble a lot of time.... But it is difficult, so get the corret answer today.. i was told that the most of Fords arcive from the periode was eat by a big fire in Ford´s office building i mid 30´s.. Is that true.???

Best Regards

Per,

[Tudortomnz]

Originally Posted by JeffM

Slightly moving away from the topic, but does anyone know how many Model A "knockdowns" were exported from Canada?

Jeff, I think that you may want 'how many sent to New Zealand?
Also, 'knock down'is a later term. Ford Australia received 'knocked down'' Model A's because they had full manufacturing & assembly plants to build them---NZ did not. Model A's arrived here mostly 'built up'' [ the term then used] & full knocked down assembly only started in late 1936 at the new Seaview Ford factory, Wellington.It was not until the mid thirties that terms like SKD & CKD were formulated in the auto world.
I now think they [Model A's] arrived in NZ with body on chassis but 'guards, bumpers, lights etc off. This also happened in other foreign markets that did not have proper assembly facilities. CMC was fully assembling Model Ts, but these were sent as bolt together kits, much simpler than Model A's & early V8's which required body jiggs, electric welding & complicated assembly.
Ford Canada export sales were 37464 in '28; 35405 in '29;25136 in '30 & 9106 in '31. There were 13,296 Model A's exported to NZ. The Canadian export sheets also show what types were sent here & how many. We were one of Canada's smallest markets, hence no Ford factory or Ford NZ until 1936. Ford Canada was essentially an export facility as its homemarket was limited & winter sales then dropped to nothing.

[JeffM]

Thanks Tom. You always have great infomation.